Handle mounting for net frames



April 19, 1955 R. CONRAD 2,706,664

HANDLE MOUNTING FOR NET FRAMES Filed Aug. 27, 1954 INVENTOR. 03527Cave/10,

United States Patent 2,706,664 HANDLE MOUNTING FOR NET FRAMES RobertConrad, Burbank, Calif. Application August 27, 1954, Serial No. 452,4956 Claims. (Cl. 306-45) The present invention relates to a deviceparticularly adaptable as a swimming pool skimmer head and as an anglersnet.

An object of the invention is the provision of a handle or pole mountingfor net frames, which net frame is quickly and easily attached ordetached from the handle.

A further object is the provision of a handle or pole mounting for a netframe which is rigid in structure, inexpensive in cost of manufacture,simple of COl'lStl'Lle tion, and generally superior to net devices nowknown to the inventor.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device of the invention as anentirety,

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view, partly in fragment, and on anenlarged scale, of the handle or pole casting or head, showing themethod of attachment therewith of the net bow or frame,

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view, partly in section, showingthe net bow or frame attached to the pole casting or head, and,

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective view, partly in section, showingthe net bow or frame detached from the pole casting or head.

Referring now with particularity to the drawing, I have shown in Figure1, a pole 1 provided with a casting or head 2, and a bow or frame 3detachably secured to said casting or head 2, which bow or frame carriesa basket type net 4. As is customary, the net is provided with a loopedtop so as to receive the bow or frame 3. Thus, the angler or the workmanwho desires to skim the debris, such as leaves, from the surface of apool, may grasp the handle 5 of the pole and entrap the debris withinthe net 4.

The head or casting 2 is provided with two transverse bores 6 and 7, thebores being in axial alignment, and with longitudinal bores 8 and 9which are substantially parallel and in right angular relationship tothe bores 6 and 7. The said casting or head is provided with atransverse slot 10, which communicates with the bores 6 and 7. The widthof the slot 10 is less in measurement than the diameter of the bores 6and 7.

The bow or frame 3 is a loop of wire rod bent into split ring form andis provided with two straight portions 11 and 12 adapted to be in axialalignment and with two parallel end extensions or mounting shanks 13 and14, in substantially right angular relationship to the portions 11 and12. The diameter of the portions 13 and 14 is such as to permit passagethereof through the slot 10 for reception within the bores 8 and 9.Carried upon the portions 11 and 12 of the bow or frame 3 are sleeves 15and 16. These sleeves have a diameter substantially equal to thediameter of the bores 6 and 7 so that the sleeves may be pressed withinthe bores 6 and 7 in the manner shown in Figure 2, to anchor the frameto the casting or head 2.

Preferably, the pole 1 is tubular and closed at one end by the handle 5,and the opposite end by the casting or head 2 so that the device, as anentirety, may float upon the surface of water. The pole is quite lightand generally of considerable length.

The operation, uses and advantages of the invention just described areas follows:

The net is first secured to the bow or frame 3 in the usual manner, withthe sleeves 15 and 16 slid upon the portions 11 and 12 to such positionas to allow the extensions 13 and 14 to be passed through the slot 16for reception in the bores 8 and 9 with portions 11 and 12 of the bow orframe passing through said slot 10 into bores 6 and 7. The sleeves 15and 16 are then moved into the bores 6 and 7 in the manner shown inFigure 4, which will hold this portion of the bow or 2,706,664 PatentedApr. 19, 1955 frame to the casting or head 2. The bow or frame cannot bedetached from the casting or head 2 unless the sleeves 15 and 16 aremoved outwardly from the bores 6 and 7. The extensions 13 and 14 of thebow or frame 3 hold the curved portion thereof in the position shown inFigure 1 without appreciable bending. If it is de sired to replace thenet or to detach the bow or frame and its net from the pole, theoperator, by a simple tool passed through the slot 10, may contact theends of the sleeves 15 and 16 and slide the same upon the portions 11and 12, whereupon the parts may be moved to the position shown in Figure5.

Another feature of the present invention lies in the fact that any slackmaterial in the said net may be pressed within the slot 10, thussupporting the net at this zone.

The device is attractive in appearance, different size bows or framesmay be secured to the casting 2, as well as different shapes of bows orframes to serve any individual requirement.

I claim:

1. A device of the character described including a length of wireforming a net frame with two ends of the wire extending outwardly in theplane of the frame, roughly normal to the proximate portions of theframe, to provide mounting shanks for the frame, a sleeve slidable oneach of said proximate portions toward and away from its shank, and ahandle slotted to receive the shanks and also a part of each of saidproximate portions and having two smaller bores to receive the shanksand two larger bores communicating with the smaller bores and with theslotted portion and each larger bore being adapted to receive one of thesleeves, said sleeves being too large to enter the slotted portion ofthe handle, whereby when the two sleeves are moved away from the shanks,the shanks may readily pass through the slotted portion in the handleinto the two smaller bores and when the shanks are in such position thesleeves may be moved into the larger bores and toward the shanks andthus lock the net frame to the handle.

2. The device of claim 1 in which the sleeves when in locked positionextend beyond the side margins of the handle.

3. The device of claim 1 in which the smaller bores are parallel, andthe larger bores and the proximate portions of the frame are co-axial.

4. The device of claim 1 in which the slotted portion extends across theface of the handle, the larger bores and the proximate portions of theframe are co-axial and the distance of either smaller bore to the nearside of the handle is roughly equal to the distance between the smallerbores, the latter being parallel to the sides of the handle while thelarger bores extend inwardly from said s1 es.

5. A device of the character described comprising a frame including asplit loop with angularly extending mounting shanks at the split, theportions of the loop adjacent the shanks being alined, a head formedwith a transverse slot at its free end, a pair of smaller longitudinalbores to receive the shanks and a pair of larger transverse boresextending inward from opposite sides of the head for each to communicatewith one of the longitudinal bores and with the slot, and means slidableon the alined portions of the loop and adapted to enter the transversebores to lock the frame to the head, said means being too large to entersaid slot.

6. In combination a rod having at right angles thereto a shank, a sleeveslidable on said rod adjacent the shank, and a holding member havingtherein a smaller bore receiving snugly the shank, a larger borereceiving snugly the sleeve, and a slot communicating with the largerbore, the slot readily receiving the shank and a proximate portion ofthe rod but being too narrow to receive the sleeve whereby when thesleeve is moved away from the shank, the shank and said proximateportion of the rod may be moved into the slot and the shank into thesmaller bore, and when the sleeve is then slipped into its bore the rodwill be locked to the holding member.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTSBuckley Dec. 7, 1926 Dailev June 7, 1949

